This is definately not how I want to live when I retire… But to each his own.

Barbara St. Hilaire spends about 50 hours a week wielding a machete, dismembering demons and battling a slew of thugs, zombies, and other nasties of the video-gaming world. Having recently nailed a 100% score in Outlaw Golf 2, she’s now focused on mastering the top levels in God of War. It’s a passion that has earned St. Hilaire, 69, the moniker “Old Grandma Hardcore.”

“If you saw her in a grocery store, you would see an old, Midwestern diabetic with thick glasses leaning on a crutch or shopping cart,” says her grandson Timothy St. Hilaire, who launched a blog recounting her gaming exploits — and her colorful expletives. “She’s a polite mother of five and grandmother of 12…but get her in front of a game, and she becomes a monster.”

Attack of the Gaming Grannies (Business Week Online)

Some 19% of gamers are over 50, up 9% in five years, according to Peter D. Hart Research Associates. And 53% of game players expect to be playing as much, or more, 10 years from now.

You’re only on this planet for so long — enjoy it while you can. There will plenty of time to play video games when you get to Heaven and I hear the graphics are absolutely divine on the consoles they have up there.

:-)

Hat Tip to YPulse.